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Design Squad Global empowers middle school kids to solve real-world problems and understand the impact of engineering in a global context. Refreshed weekly with challenges, videos, and activities, the website is one of the only places on the web where kids can share their engineering ideas with other kids. At Design Squad Global’s online hub, kids can share their engineering ideas and sketches with other kids, play games (like the flood prevention simulation “Don’t Flood the Fidgits!”), and take on global challenges (inventing a way to use less water). Fun videos feature kid engineers and hosts/role models Deysi Melgar (future aerospace engineer and professional salsa dancer) and Nate Ball (engineer, pole vaulter, and beat boxer), who draw on their experiences to dispel stereotypes about engineering and inspire kids to explore engineering.

Click HERE to visit the official Design Squad website, where you'll find videos, games, building plans, and a design tool!

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ABOUT DESIGN SQUAD

WGBH's Emmy and Peabody Award-winning reality competition series Design Squad is back for a third season with a fresh cast of contestants eager to take on design challenges that tap their creative reserves. Whether it's creating flying remote-controlled football targets for Hasbro or dryland sleds for the Jamaican dogsled team, the contestants have their work cut out for them!

Design Squad is high-energy, high-drama reality TV that lets kids show off their smarts as they design and build solutions for real-world clients — people who are hungry for clever ideas from a whole new generation of innovators.